while i am here in moscow israel sounds the alarm of a syrian tank incursion into the golan heights residence tonight reporting heavy fire exchanges in the area. in syria itself rebel fighters face war crime allegations for a video of the apparent lynching of troops surfaces online. and. the crucial swing states votes in the last leg of an election campaign. of reality t.v. . hello i'm kevin now in this is our top story israel has filed a complaint to the u.n.

after three syrian tanks enter the demilitarized zone between the two states breaching a decades old cease fire agreement more details from middle east correspondent paula sleep. what we're hearing from the israeli defense establishment is that they do believe that this syrian tank movement is linked to infighting in syria and is not an act of aggression against the state of israel she having said that though the idea of has been on the lookout for precisely this kind of development for several months now ever since the syrian inciting approached the israeli border the i.d.f. has filed a complaint with the united nations over the ceasefire violation and at the same time it has raised its alert in the north of the concrete what it is now waiting for is for the united nations disengagement force to oversee the withdrawal of these tanks that into this demilitarized zone in the central golan heights at the same time we understand that the tanks were taking part in battles between

a syrian rebels well ever since the nine hundred sixty seven six day war the whole issue of the golan heights has remained a bone of contention between israel and syria is one essentially occupied the area back in one nine hundred sixty seven and is very reluctant to give it back to syria largely because it allows it to protect its citizens below the golan heights and also the areas around the sea of galilee having said that though the issue has always been the main stumbling point between any trained of peace talks between israel and syria and has always stood in the way i mean it kind of compromise between these two countries inside syria meantime the army is reportedly repelled a rebel offensive on a key military airbase in the northwest and all code in the militia were said to be fighting along with the opposition there to try to gain control of the facility also the un's examining video which of suspect could be evidence of a war crime by syrian rebels the newly released footage of portably shows opposition fighters executing captured government troops ten soldiers were beaten

and lined up on the ground before being repeatedly shot with automatic rifles investigative journalist james colbert says it's a rare example of opposition tactics coming on the internet. scrutiny. of the atrocities are definitely being committed by the rebel forces and unfortunately that is being completely ignored because it serves of course the interests of the people who are backing the rebels and who are against assad to try to portray them in the best light possible so we've seen over the months numerous stock human coming out from different organization including amnesty including including human rights watch documenting summary execution of prisoners torture the use of children in these conflict on the part of the rebels but that has been conveniently buried in the headlines time and time again and even some of the reports that didn't know some of these atrocities being committed by the rebels were almost always prefaced by reports of government atrocities and that was buried somewhere down halfway through the article time and time again so it is of course and if the hypocrisy

that's underlying this and that's trying to manipulate public opinion certainly in the west too to be on the fours and on the side of these rebel forces the only real plan that's on the table that right now that's feasible is the one that china just put forth the four point proposal for the syrian troops which also does not include any language for assad to step down it does not in court include any enforcement language which is a political one starter in washington because of course those are the two key issues that they want to make sure is part of any type of proposal so once again we see that that washington is really absolutely keen to make sure that assad stepping down as part of any proposal and i think they're not going to accept anything short of that so i think they are content to watch these atrocities and and these murders and executions and torture pile up in the name of trying to get rid of assad and unfortunately the only real peace plan on the table at the moment isn't even being considered seriously by washington hundreds of peaceful protest as

a rain of come under attack riot police firing tear gas that rally was against the recent ban imposed on public gatherings seen as part of the government's crackdown on reform campaigns approach that activist has been jailed to six months for posting a tweet said to insult the king calling cavell is a former lecturer at the university of bahraini things that we know peace until the want to leave. to do all someone for voicing their opinion. of expression violates any standard of democracy around the world there is no improvement at all except that the regime is learning to play the world media like of oh no they claim they support human rights they claim instituting dialogue with the opposition they claim all sorts of changes and that there's a role the in bahrain meanwhile they can do neither greg dowle they continue the torture and they continue to do it and they continue the killings in bahrain with

the already overwhelming majority of the population over three quarters of the population. or out of the royal family which has been in power now for two hundred thirty it was mostly they most thinking there will be no social feat in bahrain in the situation that will continue to get more chaotic. just three days to go now till voting day both mitt romney and barack obama of kick their election campaigns into overdrive and bracing for a rally to rally both desperate to break their poll stalemate right now something neither the debates nor the superstore been able to move his artie's on us to see it in iran the final scripted rush. the blame game in full swing why didn't you call me when you're working on this thing finger pointing p did make it worse marking he even called it marvelous which is a word you don't often hear when it comes to describing a budget

a tax this president's not like wait we've all agreed that families are off limits . dogs are apparently fair game what you're seeing is them finally rising up to the level of professional wrestling and i say rising up to it because in pro wrestling in front of the cameras we all hate each other behind the scenes it's a business. and that's the same way it is for them it's a sham a sham largely compared to reality television survivor style started out and limited the contestants on the island and then event they have to form alliances you can call those parties and then they finally in the grand ma you have two three five years to go ahead and they and if your gets the big gets the big prize the big prize four years to run the united states of america the contestants are giving it their all to win the competition the concept of

a reality show we all know is supposed to be some kind of reality but but in reality it's just really made for t.v. and the presidential campaigns in the us are completely made for t.v. like in any major production a huge crew and big box run the game they have people determine what a guy's going to wear what kind of haircut how much makeup you know some of these opportunities for a lot of people to get rich from looks to comments and statements most of the election campaign and scripted. the mainstream media following the presidential campaigns eats the show right up one example i'm going to stop the subsidy to p.b.s. i'm going to stop other things i like p.b.s. i love big bird the debates the u.s. presidential debate of two thousand and twelve and on yes we ate a million that makes it the most successful most popular reality show. while fact checking leaves the building. and about is track record about

taxes. year in year most of the coverage. you spreading a giant welcome mat for trivialized news coverage is romney hurting obama's feelings since obama hurting his feelings are they being cordial to each other or are they being angry look at the way obama looks up and looks down the show must go on until. curtains are drawn presidential candidates putting on a performance to be voted into the white house a superficial media paying little attention to the actual words being said and not demanding to hear the words that should matter as the u.s. election enters its closing act and look to team it remains king and politics not much more than a circus and as they see it you're going to party new york when i spoke to the race to be the candidates lingered on two branches of america's military four is a broad both promise less war and more safety and security u.s.

national defense expert go of porter told me he's got. throughout the campaign and outside the context of the campaign you simply do not have a lively debate in the united states over this extreme degree of military spending and the militarism that goes with it i'm sorry to say that i don't believe. obama will deliver on his campaign promise specifically to. us involvement in the war in afghanistan i mean that is certainly the impression that he's conveyed to the american people and that was conveyed to the american people by the vice presidential candidate joe biden i think the closest romney and his running mate paul ryan have come to making a promise is perhaps the the idea that they would somehow be more successful in putting pressure on iran to end its nuclear program but i must say that it was not

made with much conviction and that i think is a measure of just how you are the u.s. public and the political system have become to militarism and empire for the united states. superstorm sandy may not be the only storm the u.s. experiences. i think mitt romney is a much bigger troll disaster than hurricane sandy america both believe of mitt romney presidency could also. think of this would see a disease a label he won't feel sneaky snacks there's a question in a couple of minutes we've gotten a. maybe a medic's of want to put into food. what's

the difference between a samurai sword and a blind guys walking stick well known if you're one of the cops in northern england an elderly blind architect with taser in the back because his cane looks like a sword that was used in a nearby crime honest mistake because sorts are often tubular and use this walking sticks more and more we hear stories like this like the handcuffed youth who was shot in the back to death or the unarmed guy in a wheelchair who got blown away by the boys in blue i understand that being in the police is rough everyone lies to you and any given day you could be shot dead so i get it when after a long police chase someone just snaps and in all honesty fire when the police might do the same thing but it takes a certain kind of person who enjoys abusing their uniform to make the helpless

suffer you can't tolerate sadists or those with napoleon complexes in the police and you know what they aren't that hard to spot in the shower because if you like to tase the elderly or shoot wheelchair bound people then you probably don't have much of a certain something but that's just my opinion. we should not bomb iran we need to cut the budget and bring troops home we should end the war in afghanistan to more. secure.

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visit. despite the devastation superstorm sandy rolled across the northeastern u.s. it has proved to be something of a political opportunity for the candidates spoke rushed off a sympathy and each criticize the other for an auction very often a spin out on the streets of new york with as they are to gauge which candidate whether the best. new york was hit hard by hurricane sandy will it affect the way new yorkers vote or the way they look at the issues this week let's talk about that i was a county alan sixty floor and i seen every day there would just be water. water everywhere was industry do you think the government has handled the storm well no

how could they have done better they could have gotten the subway running a lot quicker but you think they have anything to do with how much water is down there no i think they're just really slow to respond to the whole thing with the buses over here is ridiculous and it's unconstitutional that you have to have three people in a car i used to going to vote on tuesday is that no then. the city could have been wiped away if the voting polls still stand i have to be there. reacted to it it seems to be going. to be. yes so do you think that obama's looking better than romney right now. i think mitt romney is a much bigger natural disaster than hurricane sandy and i hope people realize that vote for obama you don't think there's anything wrong with obama i think there's plenty wrong in terms of his. foreign policy in the mideast but

unfortunately he's the lesser evil the bottom line is this has been a tough time for new york city and most of us are looking forward to putting this hurricane and the election behind us. the resident well to use the trial giving american voters a different perspective every day in the full choice of white house hopefuls to choose from or monday it's the final debate between the third party candidates and becoming live from studios in washington d.c. . will two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power parallel. plots if america changes. with election close god monday nov fifth on r t. russian prime minister dmitry medvedev says the pussy riot punk band should not have been jailed for the moscow cathedral stunt but

nonetheless he's expressed his condemnation over the ethics. you people are very unpleasant to me both on the outside and on the year they fill me with extreme negative emotions so much so that i don't like talking about them but i wouldn't put them in jail if i were a judge just because i don't consider it correct that their punishment was in the form of a custodial sentence they've already spent some time in custody that's actually enough for three members of pussy riot were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred of forming a so-called punk prayer in moscow's main orthodox cathedral they were sentenced to two years in jail but what was freed on probation after an appeal the woman insists the stunt was political and aimed at the authorities but their actions caused outrage among the religious community and divided russian public opinion. world news in brief this morning one guard has lost his life trying to prevent

a suicide bombing in somalia's capital mogadishu two attackers detonated their explosive devices in a popular restaurant after guards opened fire on them after they refused to go through security checkpoint the anti government islamic extremists before the behind the blast. in egypt suspected members of a jihadist group attacked a police vehicle it's left three officers dead and one wounded authorities have cordoned off the city of north sinai in an attempt to trap the government now in august egypt sent thousands of troops to the peninsula after militants code of the deadliest attack on police in the region in decades but it's in canada have come up with a very explicit way of warning against the health risks of obesity but critics say the alarming labeling will unfairly and it accurately equate everyday meals and drinks with more harmful tobacco and alcohol to explains a bit more. imagine you're about to bite into your pizza when you see this disease liver or perhaps you're taking

a swig of your drink when this diseased foot catches your eye put off your food well that's just the effect some doctors in canada want frustrated with a growing epidemic of obesity but on tyrion medical association have taken a leaf from their anti smoking contemporaries book and called for graphic labeling on fatty sugary and salty processed foods they say society must stop tiptoeing around health risks such as diabetes heart and liver disease which can arise from eating too much of certain foods what we want to do is we want to tax foods that are high in calories in the nutritional value and get tax breaks the healthy food but as you might imagine the shock food tactics have been hard to swallow for those who make or enjoy eating but targeted products they think the labels are over the top and accuse doctors of demonizing certain products and food categories hearing bacco. every day beverage items is nonsensical

smoking tobacco products do not really have a balance in a healthy place that various food and beverage products which the ontario medical association would place label warning or i can absolutely heart of a balance other proposals that have sparked controversy include labeling excessive salt sugar and fat as pathogens that is disease causing viruses and bacteria age limits for buying soft drinks and temporarily taking some obese children away from their parents william endl author of seeds of destruction says the doctors are right about the dangers of highly processed foods but that these labels will simply be ignored i don't know any single cigarette smoker. their cigarettes. their blindly i don't think that stopped. anybody the foods are engineer today in this post. what foods are ingenuity in many cases to be added to to stimulate the

pleasure center of the brain so until you forced by law to change that part of those who can't you're not going to have any solution to this and my mother the i may also recommends higher taxes and marketing restrictions on junk food especially to children to to stick suggest twenty six percent of canadian children aged five to seventeen are overweight or obese. tom barton there coming up lauren lister examines whether america's economy could make a full recovery is come about after this break thank you for watching r.t. than we care. if you're passing through rushes to veer region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoiled countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the learned and enterprising local soul the fruits of

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afternoon welcome to capital account i'm more in the store here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for a friday november second two thousand and twelve jobs numbers for october show the unemployment rate inching up a tenth of a percent to seven point nine percent but this is because more people entered the labor force which may be a good sign and payrolls climbed more than forecast so are we seeing incremental improvements on the labor front how sustainable is it given all the stimulus measures in place since two thousand and eight and what do wages indicate about an economic recovery or lack thereof we'll talk about it and today the buzz is the labor department's report yesterday it was the private a.t.p. jobs report reportedly showing companies expanding payrolls the most in eight months now these numbers get so much buzz when they come out less so when revisions are later released what can we learn from a.d.p. is revisionist history that could temper our expectations and from superstorm

sandy's price gouging to catastrophe bonds to why you would citizens don't vote for a third party candidate you wrote us will respond to you and your feedback let's get to today's capital account. all right so the jobs report out today shows one hundred seventy one thousand jobs were added last month look at nonfarm payrolls beating median analyst expectations of one hundred twenty five thousand according to bloomberg and more than that one hundred forty eight thousand added in september which by the way was revised up now this is all according to the labor department the numbers come out every month the headline unemployment rate number went up

a notch but that's because more people entered the workforce five hundred seventy eight thousand more edging the labor force participation rate up to sixty three point eight percent now this is a number we've seen declined steadily since two thousand and eight but it's been going the other direction the last few months here's where we are in context the economy has added private sector jobs bit by bit for thirty two consecutive months amounting to one hundred eleven point seven million but when you look at the number of people employed since the day barack obama took office let's use that as a gauge as we are ahead of elections next week that number is pretty much the same one hundred thirty three point six million in january of two thousand and nine versus one hundred thirty three point eight million as of last month and when you look at the increase in wages which have not been keeping up with inflation according to the b.l.s. does this tell us a different story in terms of a u.s. economic recovery or a lack there of well mike said lock investment advisor for cit because that capital

and author of mischa's global economic trend analysis is here to talk about it all he crunches the numbers every month and manages to find so much more than we hear about in the mainstream media so thanks for being on the show this is going to be a bit of a tradition talking jobs numbers when these reports come out so i'm happy you're on . well it's a pleasure rebecca on the show again and you want to make this sort of a regular feature and they will write a let's go where my lad i love it lorne emissions payroll friday let's start with last month ok payrolls better than expected september revised august revised up it's not a bad jobs report is a pretty good report right now is a very good report and actually i was kind of surprised by well you know i don't know i mean looking at what you know a.d.p. came out with yesterday you know or the other day revising the entire year now by zero ahead.